Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum responded sarcastically on Wednesday to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Standing before a global map in her daily press briefing,

Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to President-elect Donald Trump's proposal to rename the Gulf of Mexico to "the Gulf of America," suggesting renaming the U.S.

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico also said Donald Trump was ill-informed when he said Mexico was “essentially run by the cartels.”

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Tuesday on Fox Business that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum faces “big choices”

On Tuesday, United States President-elect Donald Trump held a press conference at Mar-a-Lago, where he proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico to “the Gulf of America”. According to Trump, the name change is appropriate because the gulf includes U.S. territory.

"Mexican America, that sounds nice," Sheinbaum joked while pointing to a 1607 map depicting an early portrayal of North America.

If President-elect Donald Trump was hoping to get attention by vowing to rename the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America, it worked.

The president-elect told reporters Tuesday that he wanted the body of water called the Gulf of America, but he provided no details on how the change would be enacted.